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	<title>Comments on: A Lakota myth tells the story of the First Dog</title>
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		<title>By: Christopher@BorderWars</title>
		<link>http://www.petconnection.com/blog/2010/07/26/a-lakota-myth-tells-the-story-of-the-first-dog/comment-page-1/#comment-490528</link>
		<dc:creator>Christopher@BorderWars</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 06:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Finding horse thieves is so much better than finding royalty.  No one cars if you&#039;re distantly royal or came over on the Mayflower, but anyone will listen to a good story about your outlaw ancestors. 

It&#039;s sort of like the perfect wedding. Totally forgettable.  But if the dress rips, the cake falls, the drunken uncle gives an inappropriate toast, and something catches on fire, plus nudity or a family secret getting revealed... that&#039;s a wedding for the books.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Finding horse thieves is so much better than finding royalty.  No one cars if you&#8217;re distantly royal or came over on the Mayflower, but anyone will listen to a good story about your outlaw ancestors. </p>
<p>It&#8217;s sort of like the perfect wedding. Totally forgettable.  But if the dress rips, the cake falls, the drunken uncle gives an inappropriate toast, and something catches on fire, plus nudity or a family secret getting revealed&#8230; that&#8217;s a wedding for the books.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Shaughness</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris Shaughness</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 14:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Beautiful! More, please!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Beautiful! More, please!</p>
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		<title>By: Rori</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rori</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:56:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, please, more stories!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, please, more stories!</p>
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		<title>By: Linda Handschue</title>
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		<dc:creator>Linda Handschue</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 23:11:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Love the Story Liz!! Love the way you write!</description>
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		<title>By: Liz Palika</title>
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		<dc:creator>Liz Palika</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:32:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Love it! Although I thought initially it might have been the origins of rag rugs! smile....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Love it! Although I thought initially it might have been the origins of rag rugs! smile&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: schnauzer</title>
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		<dc:creator>schnauzer</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:24:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My favorite Sioux legend explains why we should be grateful for destructive dogs:

&quot;A secret,mystic cave has been the home for many centuries of an old woman who lives there with her dog.

The old woman spends her time diligently weaving a beautiful rug from pine needles that she has collected in the forest. Her dog spends his time napping in a corner of the cave and watching his mistress through narrow slits in his eyes.

From time to time, the old woman lays down her rug and goes to stir the soup she keeps cooking in a clay pot over a fire at the mouth of the cave. When she does this, the dog creeps out of his corner and, taken the rug in his jaws, shakes it until he has unraveled a part of it.

When the old woman returns to her work, she patiently tries to restore the damaged rug and resumes her weaving, but soon she must again attend to the soup that boils in her pot. Each time she leaves the rug, the sly old dog again ravels as much or more than she has been able to complete at the last sitting.

Thus, down through the years, the two have continued their ritual of weaving, raveling, and reweaving, but the rug never grows any larger. This is a good thing, for if ever the rug is finished, the world as we know it will come to an end.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My favorite Sioux legend explains why we should be grateful for destructive dogs:</p>
<p>&#8220;A secret,mystic cave has been the home for many centuries of an old woman who lives there with her dog.</p>
<p>The old woman spends her time diligently weaving a beautiful rug from pine needles that she has collected in the forest. Her dog spends his time napping in a corner of the cave and watching his mistress through narrow slits in his eyes.</p>
<p>From time to time, the old woman lays down her rug and goes to stir the soup she keeps cooking in a clay pot over a fire at the mouth of the cave. When she does this, the dog creeps out of his corner and, taken the rug in his jaws, shakes it until he has unraveled a part of it.</p>
<p>When the old woman returns to her work, she patiently tries to restore the damaged rug and resumes her weaving, but soon she must again attend to the soup that boils in her pot. Each time she leaves the rug, the sly old dog again ravels as much or more than she has been able to complete at the last sitting.</p>
<p>Thus, down through the years, the two have continued their ritual of weaving, raveling, and reweaving, but the rug never grows any larger. This is a good thing, for if ever the rug is finished, the world as we know it will come to an end.&#8221;</p>
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